[Morrigoon]

Well, my point about eating non-lowfat foods is that you need to control portions of normal food. "Diet" foods are often less satisfying for the same number of calories, and lead you to want to eat more. I feel it's preferable to eat food that will satisfy you at smaller amounts. If you feel like you're denying yourself, you're going to want more.

This doesn't apply as well to sodas (140 calories vs. 0-1 calories) as it does to things like, say, bread and cheese, where the highly-processed "reduced fat" versions save you from 10-30 calories at great expense to substance and satiety. But I think we know there's a lot of reasons out there already to avoid diet sodas or to choose them very carefully (In my case I might drink a Splenda-sweetened diet drink on occasion, but very rarely). However, given the choice, I would prefer a sugar-sweetened Coke over an HFCS-sweetened one, not just for the health issues but also for flavor.